SECTION VI - Definitive Proceedings (hauptverfahren)

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SECTION VI - Definitive Proceedings (hauptverfahren)

31. The formal framing of a charge, as has been stated above, which terminates the preliminary proceedings (both the Vorverfahren and the richterliche Voruntersuchung) leaves the initiation of further proceedings in the hands of the public prosecutor. If he decides to continue with the prosecution, he submits the charge to the court of competent jurisdiction and requests that the trial may be held. Such written charge must specify the precise offence of which the defendant will be accused, must indicate the evidence to be adduced, state which court has jurisdiction and briefly indicate the results of the preliminary p...

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